ZipTheWonder

My mom suggested buying some vinyl records and stringing them from the chandelier as a 'centerpiece' and using those plastic baskets for the chips...and playing Glenn Miller. She also said I could use the aluminum TV dinner trays as our plates.

Definitely need to get some cheesy flowers in a glass vase and add bottled Coke to the menu! Duh! :::slaps forehead::::

If you're serving coffee dollar stores usually have those earthy colored, odd shaped coffee mugs that all diners seem to have. I'm not sure where you are, but i know around here you can buy boxes of individual liquid creamers.

Dang! NJ - along with being where knowledge and culture come to die - is the diner capital of the world. I should be able to think of more...

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It's alright, man. I'm only bleeding, man. Stay hungry, stay free, and do the best you can. ~Gaslight Anthem

I'm going to try forgetting the nightmare images of decorating with vinyl records, since I love my vinyl and the record player my brother got us a few years ago, but I'll think more on the other aspects here.

Summrs

saddle type shoes with socks, too. (to go along with the uniform in the previous post)

Are you planning on milkshakes? Pier One or Cost Plus should also have those thick glass V shaped milkshake glasses. If you go with milkshakes, get some malt powder. Oh, and a straw dispenser where you pull up the handle and all the straws pull up, too...

If there's a Mr. Zip, does he have, or can he borrow, a letterman's jacket?

ZipTheWonder

Thanks, everyone, you are SO creative. I wish I would have asked before I started my planning! I have a dinner party about twice a year, and it's SO fun! (Well, for me, and I hope it is for the guests.) `

I made some of the homemade potato chips tonight...I hope I still have some left by this time tomorrow. They are yummmmy!